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US & WWII!

Mobilizing for War!

  Axis Advantages: Japan & Germany controlled more land & more prepared for war than Allies!

  War was fought on Multiple fronts in France, USSR & Asia!

  Allied Advantages: USSR’s massive military & United State’s massive production abilities!

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  Production Boom: !

  486,000 workers producing ammunition, cannon shells & rifles!

  Built 300,000 aircraft by end of war!

  1940-1945 US factories produced planes, tanks, jeeps & guns!

  88,000 water to land crafts... 215 submarines... 147 aircraft carriers... 952 warships & 5,200 merchant ships!

  Gov’t Expansion: !

  War Productions Board = oversaw increased military production!

  Office of War Mobilization = coordinated all gov’t agencies involved in war effort!

  Directing Economy: !

  Gov’t controlled economy!

  Created income tax for M.C. & L.C. Americans!

  Sold War Bonds!

  Rationed gasoline, tires, coffee, sugar, meat, butter & canned goods!

  Froze wage increases!

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  Raising An Army: !

  1940... US called National Guard to active duty!

  Selective Training & Service Act = created first PEACETIME draft in US history... All men aged 18-45!

  Before Draft: 269,023 Army... 160,997 Navy... 28,345 Marines!

  12 million US soldiers fought in WWII!

  300,000 women... nurses, drove vehicles & ferried planes in order to allow men to fight!

Rosie The Riveter!

Liberty Girl!

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Victory Garden!

Americans Remember The Homefront!

  “When my son enlisted in the air force, he went to McDill Field in Florida. So I went there... Then I came back to Westminster... And found that people who didn’t have someone overseas were not too concerned. They were interested in bacon and sugar and gas, which I was not... I did a lot of war work... when I was at McDill, I worked in the hospital... I started to do some volunteer work in Westminster, like rolling bandages, but I couldn’t make it. The people I was doing it with were not in my situation at all. They were more concerned with what they were having to give up than with what was happening in Europe. I had people call me up and ask, ‘Do you have coupons? We can get butter tomorrow.’ I never stood in a line for a thing. I thought that if the men could do without it, so could I.” - Mary Speir!

Americans Remember The Homefront!

  “[formed] a neighborhood Victory Garden, plowed up the backyards of three houses, and planted beans, corn, tomatoes, okra, squash, and all the things we could use. When the crop came in,... [we] used a pressure cooker and canned all day. I was canning until midnight and later, night after night, and I frequently said, ‘I wish I had Hitler in that pressure cooker.’” - Martha Wood!

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Women Working In US!

  “Foremen from other departments come to my machine to ask me to do some work for them if I have time because they say I’m the best counter-sinker in the vast building! At forty-nine I’ve at last become not better than average, but the best!” - Female aircraft worker!

Victory Gardens!

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Gasoline Rationing!

Gasoline Rationing!

Rationing!

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Taxes & Bonds!

...They’re Watching Us...!

...They’re Watching Us...!

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...They’re Watching Us...!

...They’re Watching Us...!

Wartime Discrimination!

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Intro!

  HAND IN CURRENT EVENTS ON AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST!

  DISCUSS: What groups of people do you think were discriminated against during WWII? Why?!

Japanese Internment Camps!

  Issei = Native born Japanese who moved to US!

  Nisei = US born Japanese-Americas!

  1942... Japanese-Americans put in detention camps in West & Midwest!

  Hawaii placed under Martial Law!

  Many Japanese-Americans STILL fought in WWII!

Interment Camps!

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Press Coverage!

Press Coverage!

Transportation to Camps!

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Sports @ Internment Camps!

Zoot-Suit Riots!   Over 300,000 Mexican-

Americans served in WWII & Helped with Homefront Labor needs!

  Moved from Southwest to West & Midwest for production jobs!

  Discrimination in Housing, Jobs & Facility use!

  Racial Hostility mostly between White & Mexican youths... led to riots & beatings!

Sum Up!

  Why were the Japanese-Americans discriminated against?!

  Why were the Mexican-Americans discriminated against?!

  What group(s) today is(are) discriminated against?!

  Why? Any similarities between today & WWII? What? !

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QUIZ TOMORROW "!   STUDY!!!!!!!!

  Fascism (3 countries), Totalitarianism (1), Militarism (1)!

  Axis & Allied Powers (name those countries)!

  “War of The Worlds” & Reactions!

  Direct cause of US involvement in WWII!

  Liberty Girl & Rosie The Riveter (what were they?)!

  “When you ride alone you ride with [who?]”!

  Japanese Internment & Zoot-Suit Riots!